God’s Word Translation
Job 40:8
8“Would you undo my justice? Would you condemn me so that you can be righteous?
Job 40:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
- New International Version (NIV)“Would you discredit my justice? Would you condemn me to justify yourself?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Would you indeed annul My judgment? Would you condemn Me that you may be justified?
Context of Job 40:8
6Then the Lord responded to Job out of a storm, 7“Brace yourself like a man! I will ask you, and you will teach me. “Would you undo my justice? Would you condemn me so that you can be righteous? 9Do you have power like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like his? 10Then dress yourself in majesty and dignity. Clothe yourself in splendor and glory.
Read all of Job 40Job 40:8 word by word
הַ֭אַף תָּפֵ֣ר מִשְׁפָּטִ֑י תַּ֝רְשִׁיעֵ֗נִי לְמַ֣עַן תִּצְדָּֽק׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 40:8
- Psalms 51:4I have sinned against you, especially you. I have done what you consider evil. So you hand down justice when you speak, and you are blameless when you judge.
- Romans 3:4That would be unthinkable! God is honest, and everyone else is a liar, as Scripture says, “So you hand down justice when you speak, and you win your case in court.”
- Isaiah 14:27The Lord of Armies has planned it. Who can stop it? He is ready to use his power. Who can turn it back?
- Isaiah 28:18Your treaty with death will be wiped away. Your agreement with the grave will not stand. When the overwhelming disaster passes by, you will be trampled by it.
- Galatians 3:15Brothers and sisters, let me use an example from everyday life. No one can cancel a person’s will or add conditions to it once that will is put into effect.
- Hebrews 7:18The former requirements are rejected because they are weak and useless.
- Job 10:3What do you gain by mistreating me, by rejecting the work of your hands while you favor the plans of the wicked?
- Job 27:2“I swear an oath by God, the one who has taken away my rights, by the Almighty, who has made my life bitter:
- Job 32:2Then Elihu, son of Barachel, a descendant of Buz from the family of Ram, became very angry with Job because Job thought he was more righteous than God.
- Job 34:5because Job has said, ‘I’m righteous, but God has taken away my rights.
- Job 35:2“Do you think this is right when you say, ‘My case is more just than God’s,’
Commentaries on Job 40:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Wilt thou condemn me - Rather than submit to be thought in the wrong, wilt thou condemn My conduct, in order to justify thyself? Some men will never acknowledge themselves in the wrong. "God may err, but we cannot," seems to be their impious maxim. Unwillingness to acknowledge a fault frequently leads men, directly or indirectly, to this sort of blasphemy. There are three words most difficult to be pronounced in all languages, - I Am Wrong.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Wilt thou disannul my judgment? - Wilt thou “reverse” the judgment which I have formed, and show that it should have been different from what it is? This was implied in what Job had undertaken. He had complained of the dealings of God, and this was the same as saying that he could show that those dealings should have been different from what they were. When a man complains against God, it is always implied that he supposes he could show why his dealings…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-14Verses 6-14 Those who profit by what they have heard from God, shall hear more from him. And those who are truly convinced of sin, yet need to be more thoroughly convinced and more humbled. No doubt God, and he only, has power to humble and bring down proud men; he has wisdom to know when and how to do it, and it is not for us to teach him how to govern the world. Our own hands cannot save us by recommending us to God's grace, much less rescuing us from…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8Job's words had angered Elihu (10:7; 27:2; 31:35–37; 32:2; 34:5). Now, God himself challenged Job's words.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. Wilt thou not only contend with, but set aside My judgment or justice in the government of the world? condemn--declare Me unrighteous, in order that thou mayest be accounted righteous (innocent; undeservingly afflicted).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 40
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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